[Headline] Fifty Five Arrested

[Subheading] ADAPT Stands Firm at the AMA

[Subheading] ADAPT Action Report: Monday, September 10, 2007.

Fifteen years ago, AADAPT came to Chicago to confront the American Medical Association about physicians's practice of steering people with disabilities into institutions.

Mike Oxford of Kansas ADAPT remembers the 1992 action. "The AMA has gotten better with their language, but they still have doctors with financial interests in the facilities they are referring people, and that has to stop."

Today, ADAPT was back with the same message and classic direct action. The whole of ADAPT wrapped around the AMA compound blocking the doors. 35 activists split off and blocked the underground parking structure. For over three hours, the massive complex was shut down. ADAPT activists chanted and sang to keep up their energy. ADAPT members wrote colorful messages in chalk and temporary paint. The group unfurled a 50-feet long banner that said "STOP FUNDING INSTITUTIONS."

ADAPT demanded that the AMA endorse the Community Choice Act and work with ADAPT to get real options for people facing institutionalization.

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[image caption] Photo by Tim Wheat

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Tuesday 23 July 2013

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